785. LUTHER TO JUSTUS JONAS AT NORDHAUSEN. Enders, vi, 145. (Wittenberg), December 10, 15:27.
Grace and peace. At this very hour of ten I came home from my lecture* and got your letter. I had only read ten lines of it when at that very moment I was told that my Katie had a little daughter.* Glory and praise to the Father in heaven ! Amen. The mother is well, but weak. Little Hans, too, is well and happy. The wife of Augustine * is recovering, and Margaret von Mochau has unexpectedly escaped death. In their stead we have given up the five pigs that I have lost. May Christ our comforter make the plague content with this tribute and cease. My own condition is just what it has been; like the Apostle, "As dying, behold I live."* . . .
Our much talked of dissension at Torgau* amounted to scarcely anything. There was nothing before us except what you have already got from Agricola,* and it was quickly settled and we all came to complete agreement. The whole of the Visitation . Articles will now be printed soon. The greatest thing we did was to lay the cost on the Elector, but the best thing we did was to bury the rumor or suspicion of disagreement, thanks and glory to God. The reason why I did not write you anything about this tragedy was that there was nothing in it, and I held it in contempt
You may say that I had thought of writing Duke George a letter of sympathy, for I was very indignant that the name of their own prince should be so shamelessly abused by those who live under his shadow. If they were not willing to spare their own prince, they ought at least to have had some regard for the honor of the Saxon name and for the nation. It affords me no pleasure, but rather moves me to anger, that the
> Though the university had moved away from Wittenberg* I<atber was con- tinuing to lecture to the small number of students who remained in the city.
'This was Luther's second child, Elizabeth, who died tiie next year. C/. imfr^ no. 802.
- Augustine Schurff.
- II Corinthians vi, 9.
- Agricola had taken exception to some of the statements in the Visitation
Articles, which Melanchthon had prepared (c/. tupra, nos. 774, 776), and Lutlier and Bugenhagen had been called to Torgau, November 26, to settle the dispnte.
- Who was the chief cause of the "dissension.
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